Background: A customer is planning to move from their  existing out of support Windows 2003 OS to Windows 2012 R2 64bit. As part of this change, their existing ITM server components (HUB, TEPS, TDW, RTEMS)  will need to be migrated/upgraded too. Their current ITM version is 6.23FP2 running a physical Windows 2003 server and they intend to move to ITM 6.3FP4 running on virtual Windows 2012 R2 64 bit. Their TDW will also need to be migrated from DB2 9.5 to 10.1.4   The challenge 1. Windows 2012 R2 64bit OS does not support ITM... [More]

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IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions ~ How to do stuff ~ By Kevin Baldwin - How to.....    Identify and fix problems opening AMCE caused by jar file conflicts   The following problem has been reported by a number of users after upgrading ITCAMfT and/or ITM: AMCE doesn't open and the icon in the TEP toolbar is greyed out. If your environment has application support installed for one or both of the following products... yj   IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for J2EE yn  ... [More]

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If you would like to configure the IBM Performance Management (APM/IPM) V8 Data Power agent to collect snmp event data so that you can trigger events for thresholds written against the LogNotification dataset follow the below steps. Note, the agent's online Knowledge Center will be updated in the future to include this information.   The DataPower agent can be configured to collect SNMP event data by using the following command: ./datapower-agent.sh config ${instanceName} ${silent_file} The SNMP Events config properties are described... [More]

                        FTO HUBS need to be kept up to date with each other. Have had a number of pmrs recently when there has been issues with a failover to the second TEMs in a FTO pair. Now there are some known issues with the synchronization of these machines, but there are fixes available; and  I would recommend that you are at 6.3 FP06 to get all the fixes that are out there at the moment for FTO pairs. However in more than one case the issues were more fundamental than... [More]

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                      KFWITM220E tacmd tepslogin failure  Had an issue where the TEPS GUI could be logged into with no problems, however when the command tacmd tepslogin was used  with the same user id it failed with the error message KFWITM220E      In the TepsLoginCLI_0.log was seen:   com.ibm.tivoli.itm.login.TepsLogin validateTepsUserCredentials  SEVERE: Credentials authorization request failed with error code -103 com.ibm.tivoli.itm.login.TepsLogin... [More]

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Since IBM monitoring 8 is new to all of as I decided to create blog how to In this blog I will show how to create Situation using Threshold manager for Missing file using Monitored Logs feature. To create instance I used simple conf file with only LogSources=<location to my file> tag. For this test I am using example fmt file which is provided together with LFA 6.3 installation image.   To create Situation open APM console and navigate to Threshold Manager where you click on + icon: After that you will directed to Threshold Editor.... [More]

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A port vulnerability scanner is an application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. Most scanners will run for a 30 minute period, assessing open ports on a host and then producing a report to identify potential security compromises on the enterprise system(s) scanned to the end user. Running such a scan can sometimes cause unforeseen problems with already running applications, such as ITM. This blog highlights the known issues and limitations of running a port scanner on an environment featuring ITM. The aim here is to assist you... [More]

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View the latest IBM Application Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided...   dwAnswers  - Week of Dec 12 th Customizing Login and Logout Pages Is there a way to customize the login and logout page of APM 8.1.3 ? Answer:  https://ibm.biz/BdsaaP _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   Why can I not install an Agent builder Agent for APM 8.1.3? Windows Server 2008... [More]

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The 8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-SERVER-IF0006 is now available on IBM Fix Central. http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Performance%20Management%20family&product=ibm/Tivoli/IBM+Application+Diagnostics&release=8.1.3.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-IF0006&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc List of fixes The following problems are addressed by this interim fix. APARs IV90845:Data cannot be displayed for applications that have a space in the application name and that display Synthetic... [More]

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It may happen that when you create a situation based on a sampled table (meaning an attribute group whose data are collected at specified intervals), the situation does not fire when it's expected but at another, apparently wrong, interval. What could cause this behavior to occur? Is there something wrong in the setup that needs to be fixed? Let's assume that the sampled table is the "Queue Statistics" attribute group. As "Queue Statistics" group is a sampled table (ref... [More]

Hi and Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter December Edition In these monthly newsletters we are aiming to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. It will all be hosted here with external links within the blog so please have a read. Newsletter Video If you prefer to watch and listen rather than read, we also have a video version of the Newsletter which can be found at the link below on our Youtube Channel.   Direct YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/qSSHBcH5YBc  ... [More]

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Hello everyone, RZ agent is one of the most popular ITCAM agents and when properly configured t is usually quick and reliable. In my experience, beside few bugs (show me a code that is fully bug free !!), the most common issues are often caused by the Oracle environment setting, its workload and its size. For example, one of the most common problem scenarios I observed in the last months is related to the size of the Oracle Recyclebin, that causes the failure of data collection for workspace view "Non Temporary tablespace Usage" when... [More]

View the latest IBM Application Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided...   IBM Performance Management forum - Week of Dec 5th Integrating with Active Directory APM 8.1.3 on RHEL 6.7   I've gone through the steps to integrate with our AD controller but I'm having issues getting my userid set up as the administrator.  My AD login looks like ABC1234567 but my DN string looks like "Lastname Firstname (1234567), OU=OU1, OU=OU2, DC=myco, DC=com".  When I try to log in using... [More]

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IBM Monitoring 8 delivers Log File Agent (LFA) features inside OS agent. OS agent manual gives already good description how to configure this feature but I will give even more detailed with corresponding pictures. On below url you can find official documentation about configuration: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSHLNR_8.1.3/com.ibm.pm.doc/install/osagent_configcontainer.htm Before you begin you have to create conf and fmt files which later you need to place to APM server. Available tags which can be used in conf file can also... [More]

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